On 15 September 2021, the Phnom Penh Capital Administration has issued a notification on continues providing the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to people aged from 18 and children – adolescents aged 12 to under 18 who failed to receive the vaccine or have just ...

On 11 January 2024, the Ministry of Interior of Cambodia released a public announcement on the obligations of associations and non-governmental organizations after notifying that some associations and non-governmental organizations haven’t complied correctly with regulations.the Ministry of Interior has reminded all registered domestic associations and ...

Deforestation has always been a problem in Cambodia since the 1970s, and it has aggravated in​the last decade. Some protected areas have been deforested. Between 2001 and 2018, Cambodia had lost 557,000 hectares (11.7%) of forest cover in protected areas.1 this loss has had an ...

Protected Forests are generally established under individual sub-decrees, specifically for the purpose of protecting biodiversity and conservation. they are home to many endangered or threatened species. ...

Bird eye view of a local market in Phnom Penh. Photo by Roberto trombetta, taken on 8 May 2015. Photo licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Genericthe development and administration of Cambodia’s urban areas has struggled to keep pace with urban population growth. For example, ...

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Open Development Cambodia (ODC), in collaboration with the core members of the ICt4D Cambodia Network, InStEDD and the East West Management Institute (EWMI) held a half-day ICt4 Social Advocacy Network Meeting, funded by the SPIDER – the Swedish Program for ICt in Developing Regions, on ...

Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in ...

King Norodom Sihamoni presided over a nearly half-empty opening session of the National Assembly on Monday as all 55 elected lawmakers of the opposition CNRP followed through with their threat to boycott parliament to protest disputed results of July’s national election. Analysts and election monitors ...

In one corner of the cavernous training centre, a woman patiently strips the baby blue sheets off a queen-size bed, removing the flower-patterned pillowcases and folding them neatly to one side. Under the watchful eye of an instructor, she then remakes the bed, carefully fluffing the ...

Well-known timber magnate try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. the Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ...

Vietnam has joined Cambodia in questioning the sustainability of the planned Don Sahong dam project on the Mekong River in southern Laos, saying more environmental impact studies are needed before the scheme moves forward. Le Duc trung, director general of the Vietnam National Mekong Committee under ...

The U.S. House of RepresenTaTives on Wednesday passed a spending bill ThaT would suspend some funding To Cambodia unTil The governmenT carries ouT an independenT invesTigaTion of July’s dispuTed naTional elecTion and reforms iTs elecToral sysTem, or unTil The opposiTion ends iTs boycoTT of parliamenT. The ...

Piles of garbage festered on the streets of Phnom Penh on tuesday as hundreds of workers employed by the city’s refuse collection company, Cintri, continued to strike for higher wages and better working conditions. At the company’s truck depot in Dangkao district tuesday morning, more than ...

Cambodia is struggling to safeguard its forests while preserving economic growth since many people make a living via farming, logging, and other activities that might lead to deforestation. Almost 80% of Cambodians living in rural regions rely on forests for survival. On the other hand, ...

Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia in New York. Photo taken from the UN website on 22 September 2022.the United Nations (UN), founded in 1945 and guided by the UN ...

Working from home during this period of COVID-19 seems to be likely adopted by many enterprises, including my organization Open Development Cambodia (ODC). As the outbreak of the Coronavirus is taking place with an abrupt increase of the positive confirmed for COVID-19 infection, people are ...

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Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to organize the workshop “Mobile Data Collection with Kobo toolbox”. the course will focus on: Principle and application of Kobo toolbox which is a suite mobile data collection technology for building form questionnaire, data collection and management for higher quality.Hands-on ...